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Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Global Health Nursing & Midwifery, Global Surgery & Anesthesia, Health IT, [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment & Prevention, Malaria Treatment & Prevention, MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention, TB Infection Control,

Bio Anat Rosenthal, PhD Anat Rosenthal, Ph.D., is a Medical Anthropologist and a fellow at the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel and Malawi on the social and cultural effects of AIDS, health policy, and undocumented migration, and also worked with the Israeli AIDS Task force on developing prevention and care programs for undocumented migrant populations. Her current research focuses on the impact of AIDS on kinship systems and social institutions, and on the impact of ART roll-out on clients and health professionals in rural Malawi. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the ...

Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Health IT, HIV Treatment & Prevention, MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention, TB Infection Control,

Bio Matthew Akiyama Matthew Akiyama is in his third year at University of Hawaii's Internal Medicine Residency Program. As an undergraduate at at McGill University, he studied Microbiology & Immunology with a minor concentration in Social Studies of Medicine. During this time, he assisted with two projects entitled 'Anthropology, Inequality, and Disease' published in the Annual Review of Anthropology and 'The Social Science of HIV/AIDS: A Critical Review and Priorities for Action' published by Canada's International Development Research Centre. His studies and extracurricular research led to an interest in global health equity and medical anthropology with a particular focus ...

Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases, Health IT, [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment & Prevention, Malaria Treatment & Prevention, Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network,

Bio Nour Sharara I grew up in Dakar, Senegal and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of fifteen. I graduated from McGill University with a double major in Anatomy & Cell Biology and Political Sciences (2009). I then went on to pursue a MA in Medical Ethics and Law at King’s College London (2011). Being born and raised in Dakar to a pharmacist mother, I was exposed very young to the painful realities of health access inequality and the moral imperative to provide assistance to disease stricken populations. During my undergraduate degree I had the opportunity to serve as a ...

Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases, Global Health Nursing & Midwifery, Global Surgery & Anesthesia, Health IT, [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention, HIV Treatment & Prevention, Integrating M&E for Health Systems Strengthening - April 2-6 2012, Malaria Treatment & Prevention, MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention, Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of NGOs - November 7-11 2011, TB Infection Control, Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network,

Bio Farooq Khan McGill University

Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases, Health IT, HIV Treatment & Prevention, MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention, TB Infection Control,

Bio Ziad Khatib Postdoc fellow, Dept. of Epidemiology, Biostat and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal PhD, Epidemiology and Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (in collaboration with Stanford University, California and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Johannesburg). McGill University

Communities [ARCHIVED] Adherence & Retention, Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases, Global Surgery & Anesthesia, Health IT, HIV Treatment & Prevention,

Bio Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay McGill University Northern Ontario School of Medicine